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Overstock earnings questioned by ex-con	Filed under: Blogs, ScandalsFormer Crazy Eddie CFO and sometime Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) critic Sam E. Antar has posted an item on his blog accusing that company of a "stock market manipulation scheme."Read Overstock.com and Patrick Byrne: Anatomy of a Stock Market Manipulation Scheme - First Quarter Earnings Release here.In the post, Antar alleges that the first quarter earnings press release issued on Friday was "intentionally timed with expiration of options to manipulate the market (i.e....	April 21, 2008
Shop at Overstock, support cyberstalking!	Filed under: Management, ScandalsOverstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) reported impressive numbers yesterday -- and by impressive numbers, I mean another loss years after projections of profitability -- and its shares shot up more than 30%. Gary Weiss reported on the less optimistic part of the press release that the company issued, but I'd like to take a second to point out something to investors. Even if the company's fundamentals are improving, this is still one of the creepiest public companies on t...	April 19, 2008
Overstock.com being investigated by law enforcement in California	Filed under: International markets, Press releases, ScandalsChalk up another problem for Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), the failing online retailer run by the wacky CEO Patrick Byrne. Yet this law enforcement investigation doesn't appear to come with any "celebration" by Byrne. Byrne is usually proud of the company's failures, but the announcement of the latest law enforcement investigation was buried deep in a press release about the latest set of quarterly losses: On April 15, 2008, we receive...	April 19, 2008
Overstock's Patrick Byrne, hypocrite	Filed under: ScandalsIn a way, you have to admire Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne. At the very least, he's a guy who's never let his lack of accomplishment interfere with his ego.In a rambling press release issued last night, Byrne commented on Gradient Analytics' counterclaim filed against his company. I swear I'm not making this up:"This lawsuit is an attempt by Gradient to distract attention from their failing business model."The CEO of a company that has a track record of miss...	April 16, 2008
Herb Greenberg leaving MarketWatch	Filed under: Media WorldOn May 1st, financial journalism will be losing one of its best voices.In a post on his blog this morning, Herb Greenberg wrote that "I'm leaving MarketWatch, Dow Jones and traditional journalism to start an independent research firm with my friend, Debbie Meritz, an analyst/accountant who has been a very good source of ideas in the past."In addition to being an all-around great guy, Herb is one of the best scambusters in the business, calling shenanigans at companies lik...	April 15, 2008
Festival of Stocks at Dividend Growth Investor	The 82nd edition of the Festival of Stocks is up at the Dividend Growth Investor. My favorite entry this week was Mike Price’s take on Overstock (OSTK). While I didn’t agree with his conclusions, I enjoyed the discussion. Mike actually responded to my comment on his analysis of Overstock with another post specifically on Overstock’s economic moat. If you enjoy reading these Festival of Stocks and own a blog, consider hosting an upcoming edition. Check the Festival of Stocks sc...	March 31, 2008
Overstock.com and Patrick Byrne: Phony Accounting and False and Misleading Disclosures	It seems that Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), company CEO Patrick Byrne, and its unprincipled management team is a bottomless pit of lies, distortions, inconsistencies, and false and misleading disclosures....	March 18, 2008
Force Protection (FRPT): Sometimes the short sellers are right	Filed under: ScandalsIn a recent interview with The Register, Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne told (his side of) the story of Force Protection (NASDAQ: FRPT), a maker of armored vehicles for the military. To hear Byrne tell it, this is company that is keeping our troops safe but that, because of naked short selling, has been unable to raise the capital necessary to fill orders. Force Protection was down more than 20% yesterday after the company again delayed the filing of its 10...	March 18, 2008
Is Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne defending the Universal Express fraud?	Filed under: Law, ScandalsIf you've read my posts on Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne's allegations of a vast conspiracy of market manipulation involving a character from Star Wars and crooked reporters, you know that I'm a bit skeptical. But for this post, let's put all that aside and assume that Patrick Byrne's whacked out conspiracy theory is right on: there is indeed a cabal of hedge fund managers and "captured journalists" working overtime to drive down his company's sto...	March 04, 2008
eBay (EBAY) sellers' strike plays into the hands of smaller competitors	Filed under: Products and services, Management, Industry, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, eBay (EBAY), Marketing and advertising, Small businessFor the past several years, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) has pretty much cornered the market for online auctions. It has created such large barriers of entry, that smaller sites have difficulty breaking into the market. But this week's seller boycott on eBay has opened the door for some smaller companies.We took a look earlier this week at the reasons ...	February 21, 2008

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